The project statement for our project is “How can we help Singapore Polytechnic students to better manage their time in order to have good work life balance?” , and the issues surrounding this topic is relevant to our society as Singapore’s only resource is human capital and the students of today shall become the leaders of the world tomorrow. Therefore there is a great importance for students to be able to better manage their time to strive for good work life balance, as the lack of it could prove disastrous to individuals in terms of both health and work, which in turn could lead to the fall in productivity and growth in a country. Stress and depression are two things which might occur if students are unable to have a good work life balance, and this shall further lead to a fall in motivation and eventually lead to a fall in productivity as the habit of having poor work life balance stretches into the student’s adult working lives in future. …show more content…
Having poor work life balance is one of the factors that resulted in many Singaporean’s unhappiness and hence this shows why our project statement is of great importance to Singapore as the wellbeing of our citizens are being addressed in this project. To add on, addressing the issue of poor work life balance with students shall also enable us to improve on the productivity of students as we find out the reasons for why they procrastinate and seek to limit the cause for such
Time management has been one of the most substantial hurdles of my scholastic and professional career. Many of us waste our time on things that are neither important nor necessary, instead of using that time for something of that is meaningful. To capitalize on the use of time management strategies and reach my Doctoral Business Administration (DBA) program goals. I will execute two specific time management strategies, for example, accessing and planning a weekly schedule while adjusting my daily schedule. Time management will help me maximize the use of my time and reach my ultimate DBA goals of completing each assignment.
However, this mind-set not only hinders us from achieving our life goals, but also in counterproductive for the example we set for those around us. Developing a healthy work, life and college balance can be difficult, but manageable with a good support system including family, classmates,
in the next article “year round schooling healthy or not?” it states that the work place can become stressful “ workplace stress, and argues that the calendar is only one of many factors affecting teachers.” (Sagan). teachers already face enough stress with just grading work but when teachers get overloaded with work it can create stress on the teacher.the amount of work teachers are required to do can be difficult and can create even more workplace stress. once again workload affects the teachers in the work space and make it stressful for
Students need to reconnect with their passions before they are thrown into the working world to receive the most out of their
Marcia “Marci” Johns is the best therapist I have ever had. She is both professional and kind-hearted. Outside of the office, all I know about her is that she likes cats and has had dinner with a large Italian family at least once. I am glad for knowing very little about her; Marci has always maintained strong personal boundaries which has been very helpful for me. I am less able to change the subject from me to her in order to avoid the hard work I need to do.
I learned in this activity how crucial time management skills will be to my ability to complete this course successfully. The analysis from the questionnaire (Table 2) as well as keeping a record of what activities I focus on for a couple of days, opened my eyes to a few areas of improvement. From the patterns observed I could see that most of my time was taken up by work and commitments as well as procrastination. Not being able to juggle theses successful led to irritation and was unproductive. Research suggests that managing ones emotions, being self-aware and self-motivate can be factors for success for a student (Allan, 2009).
During this period I decided that instead of going to work, I was going to college once again. After fourteen months at Warner I completed a bachelor’s degree. One year after I finished the Warner degree I went and enrolled at Kaiser University looking for another Bachelors this degree only took me twelve months to completed. After completing the two bachelor’s degree I thought that it is time to go back to work.
By the existence of work flexible schedule, people can make two jobs in one day. For example, people can make an online business at home and at the same time, they can do their jobs at home. This thing wouldn’t take much time to round their business. If they have free time, they can continue to complete their work task at home. For students, they also can get a job if all of Malaysia’s company using work flexible schedule.
Students face various challenges throughout their college career. Thus, the problems that students have can range from balance, new lifestyle, to financial problems. Therefore, finding a balance between being a student, possibly working, and keeping up with their social life is a necessity. Similarly, others are away from home for the first time thus, they have a new responsibility with being on their own and findings ways to deal with homesickness. Likewise, being exposed to new financial situations is yet another challenge college students will need to learn how to cope with.
Burnout is a prolonged response to chronic emotional and interpersonal stressors on the job, and is defined by the three dimensions of exhaustion, cynicism, and inefficacy. The past 25 years of research has established the complexity of the construct, and places the individual stress experience within a larger organizational context of people’s relation to their work. Recently, the work on burnout has expanded internationally and has led to new conceptual models. The focus on engagement, the positive antithesis of burnout, promises to yield new perspectives on the interventions to alleviate burnout. The social focus of burnout, the solid research basis concerning the syndrome, and its specific ties to the work domain make a distinct and valuable
Yeah...in retrospect, I was probably going overboard last night. I was trying to experience Chicago for all of us, precisely because of our collective lack of exposure to the city, and to the mindset that enabled me to rediscover it. Last night was my attempt to bring this experience back to all of you so you could get a taste of it, and then be inspired to go check it out for yourselves. I was also trying to get Dad to think more outside of the box - so that he could enjoy life more, and so that he would permit us to enjoy it too, without being on-guard. Now that Dad trusts me more, I thought I'd take a chance with him...
Students are very likely to experience some or many stressors which may test their ability to cope: adapting to a new environment, balancing a heavy work load, making new friends, becoming more independent, and dealing with myriad of other issues. Looking from a closer perspective, the college students’ encounters a number of challenges in his day to day life, therefore the whole idea of an existing and vibrant college life is unveiled by these challenges which in turn contribute to
If an employer helps an employee to balance their work and home life, the organizations can be rewarded by increased loyalty and commitment. Employees will also be able to focus more on their work and to further develop their career in current organization. There have been plenty of research done on work life balance across the world and in Hong Kong. The "working hours" index of UBS' annual "Prices and Earnings" study, Hong Kong came dead last out of 71 global cities listed, with an average of 50.11 hours spent at the workplace per week. This data was collected from 15 different professions from business, construction, and education sectors, to name a few.
INTRODUCTION Today, most of the employees when they want to choose jobs, they are not only looking on how much salaries alone, instead they explore other benefits that jobs can offer to them. One of the benefits that employee will look for is does the job they want to apply offers flexibility especially in terms of work schedule. This is because many employee already have other demanding commitments and the recent changes in the nature of work, along with the introduction of new technologies (cell phones, email and other means of electronic communication) have led to many employees struggling to balance roles in their work and personal lives (Hayman, 2009; Hobsor, Delunas & Kelsic, 2001). Therefore, employees hope to get a job that allows them to do other commitments without disrupting their commitment to work.
How Have I Learned to Balance Penn Foster Studies with Work, Family, and Other Activities and Responsibilities? Over a period I have come to conceptualize a true aspect of life that Balance Studies, Work, Family, Other Activities, and Responsibilities are quite cumbersome. This may occur when I need to meet a set of goals for each entity. As a single mother of a teenage daughter, I live in my house with my spouse and my daughter.